Sunday Overnight Open Thread (4/7/24)

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“We are deeply concerned about the potential for customer confusion and disservice that could result from this proposed renaming,” San Francisco International Airport’s director, Ivar Satero

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“Just like we organized against No Labels, we’re going to organize against [Kennedy]. His run, like No Labels, is nothing more than a spoiler.”
Rahna Epting, the executive director of MoveOn

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“I think it’s quite rich you guys pursue criminal investigations and put people in jail for not showing up [but then order your own employees to also not show up]. You all are making a bunch of arguments that you would never accept from any other litigant,” Judge Ana Reyes

Yours truly chose to eliminate Comments of The Week last Sunday. The regular feature was missed. So without further fanfare, ado & trumpets blasting the best comments on the web are back.

No good deed goes unpunished. Just hours after withdrawal, five rockets launched by Hamas at southern Israel./a>

IDF withdraws ground troops from south Gaza, leaving just one brigade in whole enclave
Military sees targeted raids with new intel as more effective way to fight Hamas; Rafah plans not affected, since op there would in any case need major call-up of fresh reserve forces

The Democrats need more John Fettermans and less Chuck Schumers.

Sen. John Fetterman unloads on squatters, says they have 'no rights': 'I am not woke'
Fetterman told the New York Post, 'I am not woke'

Showing off for your girlfriend? Well, he certainly will never top this.

DEATH SMASH Model, 21, and DJ boyfriend killed in 155mph fireball Ferrari crash as £100k supercar smashed into motorway guard rail
The only identifiable detail at the scene were two distinctive gold watches

Typical politician/bureaucrats. "You know that thing I did in your mouth? I promise I won't do it again. Swearsies!"

Here's a gentle reminder of the assurances given to us by the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress.

"These resources are absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans. As we've been planning, our investment of these enforcement resources is designed around the Department of the Treasury's directive that audit rates will not rise relative to recent years for households making under $400,000," wrote IRS commissioner Charles Rettig in an August 2022 letter to concerned senators.

Janet Yellen was even more adamant. "Contrary to the misinformation from opponents of this legislation, small business or households earning $400,000 per year or less will not see an increase in the chances that they are audited," she wrote in a letter to Rettig.

I wish all of the luck and success in the world to Tony Bobulinski's lawsuit against a congresscritter who is pure vermin.

Former Hunter Biden Associate Tony Bobulinski Sues Rep. Dan Goldman For Defamation

Tony Bobulinski, a former Biden family business associate and witness in an ongoing Republican-led impeachment investigation, has filed a lawsuit against Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) accusing the lawmaker of defamation.

I'm happy to see that NYC has their law enforcement priorities straight. Now, if they would only arrest, convict and sentence real law breakers.

The NYPD is unleashing barnacles to battle parking pirates.

The department this week said it will begin using “windshield boots” — a 17-pound device that attaches to a vehicle’s windshield like a barnacle and remains there until a scofflaw pays their tickets — on illegally parked trucks.

The contraption is also known as a Barnacle Device for its commercial-grade suction cups that attach to glass with 1,000 pounds of force, making it impossible to remove — like the sticky crustaceans on their oceanic hosts, officials said

What's been playing the past few days here at Casa Misanthrope.

A story that is full of Genius Award Winners.

Man arrested after staying 80 nights in hotel and being unable to pay bill

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